How to have a wedding on a budget/ should you save for a wedding?/ 5 years later

[@Queen_Natushemeza]

Wow. What an insightful video. I'm glad I get to see such videos before I get married. Growing up, I always wanted an OVER AND ABOVE wedding but the more you grow and understand life, I AGREE with Daphine. If I could have a wedding of one and half people I would

[@wafulameshack5532]

I have loved this advice for real Thank you the Ekimas for the openness

[@ankundasheillah6543]

Congratulations upon 🎉the new set

[@hilda5833]

Amazing,thx alot

[@kebirungimackleane]

Thank God I have listened to it at the right time. Some lessons learnt.

[@TheEkimas.]

Thank you for watching Mackleane 🤗 so glad it was helpful and timely

[@rachellorna5109]

As one who is in the wedding preparation season, this is very timely! Thank you for these gems! 📌

[@TheEkimas.]

You are welcome ❤️ congratulations and all the best on your wedding 🤗🥰

[@rachellorna5109]

@@TheEkimas. thank you so much! 🧡

[@EzekielRuhinda]

Wow! What an amazing and encouraging story

[@mercymutoni516]

This is well noted and thanks for the insights..❤ I have enjoyed the video😊

[@donnakeirungi2464]

Yess to add taking it out of town. Have your wedding on a weekday. Many will be cut out by the timing. A Thursday or Friday.

[@TheEkimas.]

Yesss 💯💯 this works like a charm

[@natukundaphionah8786]

I really don't agree that we should not save for the wedding. Yes much as it doesn't make sense to the accountants 😂😂😂😂 to me I believe you should do something that you love and the only way to do that,please save so that you are not pissed at people who have not contributed for you😂. It's a one one day event but you can't afford to be sad on your day because you didn't want to save up for them. Any in my opinion if you can please save up

[@TheEkimas.]

We are not against having money for ur wedding or encouraging people to to burden others with their wedding budgets. we are saying let it come out of investments u have in place. In other words treat it as a luxury not an investment as we often do. Saving for a wedding of 50 or 30 people makes sense but imagine saving for a glamorous wedding of 1k people. We are against starving yourself just so u can have a good wedding and call the whole world. It is not worth it in my opinion because it is not necessarily a measure of how happy your marriage will be. Put that money in an investment if an investment has a good return put it in the wedding. A wedding should not be looked at as an investment because it’s not. And so it doesn’t make sense to save for 5 years just for it. Ps: Saving here is relative depending on ur income, what someone might save in a month it might take another 5 years. This video is mostly speaking to the later category (u are broke but want to have a wedding).

[@natukundaphionah8786]

But anyway you as the bride and the groom,should do you. Don't do to impress people just do what you love if you can afford it. In my opinion I still believe that do as you like.....

[@natukundaphionah8786]

First of all congratulations on the new equipment. 😊

[@roseadongo6574]

Congratulations and great content

[@TheEkimas.]

Thank you 🥰

[@donnakeirungi2464]

Congratulations guys on the equipment.

[@TheEkimas.]

Thank you Donna 😊 we really couldn’t wait to have them 😅

[@kabanyanambamba5962]

I agree with Daph. The kuhingira and wedding in one . Then people should embrace court wedding 😂

[@TheEkimas.]

What is the difference between court wedding end church in terms of finances. Isnt it the same financially

[@RitaAmanyire]

I agree with Donna in an African setting it makes it difficult to have a small function Then my point of view I think as Africans we need to unlearn the belief that weddings are supposed to be small, When we start to have small functions we are sort of erasing our history When you date back to our forefathers and ancestors an introduction ceremony was something of great value in society it wasn’t just about the couple it was an opportunity to bring people together to unite in celebration of love so I personally think this business of small weddings erases our history Also we have become a generation that is so self centered and obsessed with me me and have hence given up on what we call community. In the old times even someone who didn’t know you would contribute to your function because it was community based

[@TheEkimas.]

This is true and Makes sense...however in the old African traditional society parents funded everything, lately parents leave it to the couple to hustle it out. That’s where the problem is. If it is a community event then pull resources as a community if that is not the case then I should be able to decide who to invite and who not to based on my pocket.

[@donnakeirungi2464]

Some of us don’t have that privilege of cutting numbers. Me. I am a last born of 24kids. We have immediate cousins 72. Me being a last born, means all the 23 are married. Actually even if the 72 I am the youngest. Meaning all those are immediate family members. Who will you call who won’t you? Remember this is immediate parternal. 2. If the wedding is in Kampala, you have to bring those people to Kampala. That is transport, super and breakfast for two days and accommodation for two days. 3. You really be wanting somehow nice things. Even when you cut costs. Riyale save guys save for your weddings. 4. Peoples contributions, that’s how you will be telling people to add you more money. I know a guy who told his friend that he expected the friend to give like 10m and not just the 5that the friend had given. Imagine.

[@TheEkimas.]

On the issue of large families we also had over 2k people on our giveaway and we didn’t know a big percentage of these people. I am all for inviting everyone only if who ever is inviting the whole clan is funding the wedding eg parents or have those very people contribute if u must have them. If the immediate family is large then u have to cut on the number of friends. The decision to cut numbers is never easy and some people will always hold beef. But it’s a decision u have to make. It’s either u cut numbers or choke financially. Like we shared in the video there are ways of cutting numbers that is easy like taking the wedding away, having it on a weekday like u have said or combining giveaway party and church party among others. 2. Number 2 having the event out of town helps with this. It saved us this expense of transporting people 4. On number 4 that sense of entitlement comes from wanting things beyond what u can afford or is within your budget or wanting to call numbers beyond what u can afford. People don’t owe you a wedding 😅 so no u shouldn’t be stressing people with contributions by force. If they give to u well and good but sibyampaka 🤣 ugandans we need to stop 🛑 with chocking peoples with contributions. That way maybe we also won’t feel obliged to invite everyone

[@ihundendaphine109]

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[@atwebembeirepatience1097]

Wow wow How abt this thing of creating groups for contributions?😢😢😢

[@TheEkimas.]

If you are a people person who has always been there for people people are likely to come through for u out of their free will to support u. We were so blessed in this area we had friends including service providers who offered to do stuff for us at very discounted prices because of the relationships we (mostly Emma) had created with people along the way. It should be out of people’s free will not force and entitlement. People don’t owe u anything ur wedding ur responsibility. If they come through for u well and good if they don’t please release them we are all dealing with so much and weddings might not be something they are excited for.

[@natukundaphionah8786]

Am team Emma on this one 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@iamthemessagegrace4568]

The very first here

[@TheEkimas.]

So good to have you on here 🥰🤗🤗 we appreciate it